CoX repetitive?? Nooooooo :)

To me, complaints of repetition are inevitable for a game that is meant to keep the same players entertained through multiple play session a week for years on end. The way to counteract this is with variety.

If a player plays 5 different characters from 1-50 with the same archetype/powersets, and with players of the same, you KNOW it will feel repetitive. Changing to new archetypes/powers will change this, as will teaming with different characters with new abilities.

If a player plays the same story arc 5 times in a row, you KNOW it will feel repetitive. Changing to doing 3 different arcs in 5 play sessions seems less so.

If a player has the same objective 5 times in a row, it feels repetitive. But if the game gives them different things they need to do,the play session feels varied enough to pass over the few times that objectives are similar.

If a player gets 5 different missions in a row on the exact same map, you KNOW it will feel repetitive. If they play 3 maps of different sets, it feels less so.

While the devs have addressed powers/archetypes/and stories, it does bring up a valid point. The developers have made very little effort to varry map tilesets: since launch, the number of archetypes has nearly tripled. Around 40 something new power sets have been made, not counting ancillary/patron pools. New stories are added, from single contacts to entire new zone's worth of content here and there. Way back when, they added new mission objectives./functionality. (defend/escort, etc.)

But new map tilesets? (Not unique maps) You know, the places to go to do things we do? Not much on this front. CoV gave 'new' sets, but the offices and such were simple color changes. Arachnos tilesets were new, and regularly used. Cimeroran tilesets were added, but were only used in a few new arcs outside of that zone. I do hope that devs make some new environments to be used game wide in old arcs and generic missions as well. Most everything in this game is done in a cave /sewer /office /warehouse /CoT /Council /Ship /Arachnos map. (Less so on the latter, blueside) It would actually freshen up the game play experience if everything happened on a cave/ sewer /office /warehouse /CoT /Ship /Council /Arachnos /mansion /museum /steampunk /apartment building /military bunker /skyscraper /factory map. Variety= less burn out. And I hate to say, it's a package thing. If you add new powers, new stories, but use old/similar objectives and environments, the text on top of it can't hide that to the player, and they can get bored of it.

And quite frankly, I'm not sure why adding new general use map tilesets seems so avoided. It is a bid different then new costume bits, art-wise, but it isn't that crazy.

I'd hazard that we see a number of new sets when GR releases. And then afterwards, well, thats fair game.

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I like the repetitiveness personally. I enjoy the stuff COX lets us do, so I enjoy doing it over and over. I don't object to re-skins or new maps but I'd object to anything that makes the game tedious, like AI changes or anything that makes the game no longer relaxing and fun. It *is* a game after all.

Lewis

/minority report

I completely agree with the article and would love to see a thousand new maps. Even if they would eventually be old it would still be a time of discovery and joy.

For me, the repetetiveness of maps (or maybe the lack on non-combat content) is the #1 drawback of this game

I think the article is somewhat unfair - because it's failed to take into account a lot of the newer content in the game that doesn't use the maps.

Sure, we see that warehouse a lot, but then if you play a lot, as some have pointed out, that's inevitable. Nobody's complaining because they've run the ITF 20 times.

Sure, new skins and tiles would be a nice to have but I'd rather see the game moving forward than old content being revamped - but for me the original article isn't relevant to today's game. It's a filler for Massively. If they'd posted that maybe 3 years ago, they might have had a reasonable case but not now.

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The 3-room boat is ok - but the bigger one is a bit too much for defeat-alls

This is exactly why I refuse to visit anybody who lives in a housing development. The layout for every house is exactly the same although sometimes mirrored. Sure the people in each house are different but they stand around in the same rooms. The activities that take place in each house may be different but they are all still activities. Sure the furniture is different but the beds are still in the bedrooms, the kitchen stuff is still in the kitchen, the couch is still in the livingroom... I think you get my point.

And let's talk about cities. Every time I visit them the streets and buildings are in the same place they were last time. Sure they get an expansion sometimes but that new building or street gets old and repetitive very quickly.

In fact I don't even know what I'm doing in this forum. I'm still using the same computer I had last year and sitting at the same computer desk using the same internet connection. I think it's about time that the movie 2012 happened for real. The Earth needs reskinning.

[QUOTE=Spazztastics;2586894]I do not see this "repetiveness" in CoX. I love to whack people down wherever it's caves, offices, bla bla. Whacking people simply never gets old.
CoX offers an excellent system for you to try out a millions of combinations of characters power sets and builds. If you don't like your build, simply respec or make a new character. Every character you make is a whole new experience.

WoW on the other hand is an extremely repetitive game with it's 80 levels loooong quest grind, boring unsatisfying PVE killing and it's 'based on end-game stuf concept (yes, i have played wow in my days and I had a couple of level 80's before I quit so I'm not just trolling).

In all. CoX is a MMO and every MMO out there have some kind of repetitiveness in the end. I don't care much for that the instances have the same maps. It's nothing that I ponder about while I'm rescuing and whacking ppl down, giggling as villains hit every wall in a office corridor. The city zones are so varied in the game that it should be enough for people who want to experience views.[/Qoute]

I am guessing by your forum date that you have not been playing that long so no you might not see the issue. Trying playing 5+ years, like a lot of people in this game, and you would think different. Does get old after awhile and new layouts will go along way to correct that.